Pushing the buck around

An investor, who was misled into investing a large sum of money in land banking plots made a complaint to his  Member of Parliament. He provided documentation to support his complaint. The MP wrote to Monetary Authority of Singapore who referred the investor to the Commercial Affairs Department. He met with an officer of CAD who told him that they have received several similar complaints and were investigating the matter. Nothing was heard from CAD for the past two months.

The investor asked me what to do. He said that one party is pushing the buck to another party and nobody is interested to take charge of this matter. I wondered why the CAD did not wish to contact the complainant and get more facts. The complainants are kept in the dark. This seemed to be a habit in Singapore.

I asked the complainant to take the matter up with his elected MP again. I hope that the MP will follow up on this matter, rather than let sad state of affairs continue.

Tan Kin Lian